The Sundown opened in 1947 in a rural area near Hampton Ponds.
It always remained a country drive-in without the cosmetics that others had. It closed and was razed in 1983 to make way for a shopping plaza.

When I was in High School back in the mid 70’s a couple of my brothers and I worked on a farm that had one field that bordered on the Sundown , the owner of the drive-in and the farmer we worked for were friends and they set up a bench with speakers where we could go watch movies any time we wanted. It was placed outside the regular area so we were allowed to have some beers and get kinda crazy without bothering anyone. My older brother Steve who is also on this forum somewhere, was attacked by a crazy lady while he lived in an A-frame on the farm property…..good times. The Sundown was tore down and is now a defunct mini-mall….it only has a bad Chinese restaurant open, everything else is out of business, what a waste of a drive-in

Oh man, this takes me back to a much much simpler time.
Hiding my friends in the trunk while I drove in to the theatre all by myself. Yeh, I’m sure that was a novel idea! lol The snack bar was not quite a 5star establishment….but no one cared. The movies kinda blew (mostly horror flicks) but no one cared. The car next to you had fog up windows but……